getting its nuclear power and transparent expertise to the end to the philippines i wonder is that something that may be adventurous to you particularly the nuclear energy issue from what i understand it's quite a contentious subject in your country we are interested in everything that they saw russia and we hope that we can interest russia with everything that's filipino from our warm hospitality to our beautiful islands countryside mountains from your sophisticated military hardware to your transport that vehicle is exciting motorcycles you know i ask you specifically about. it don't you think this from what i knew if you actually built one nuclear power for but it never went into operation because building wind of that was infested with corruption we pay of course u.s. . company under the guidance of international financial institutions the us which

corruption has been exposed in the last few decades so the contention it's not the use of nuclear power itself or aid or help of fresh air or russian technology the issue of more of use the location of where the nuclear power plant is that the controversy is more if we should build there because there are strong feelings given the history but in so far a scope or a shown in this map that we've signed agreements we're very our scientists are very excited that our department of science and technology our department of energy is excited that the way we work with the. agencies in atomic and nuclear fields ok well secretary we have to take a very short break now but he will be back in just a few moments. hit

. exists is harder than kentucky the. whole goal of this move them boys to be bold and street by music. a co money city it was almost no coal mines left. the jobs are gone all the coal was just said i'd. love to see these people the survivors of a world disappearing before their own eyes. i remember thinking when i was younger that if anything ever happened to the coal mines here that it would become a ghost town but i never thought in a million years i would see that in the end it's how much it's happened.

and what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to be rich. that's a right to be for us to say what before three in the morning can people get. interested always in the waters about how. this should. some people simply. use indigenous people as you know we that the paid people the trees.

mostly and so it's only. out of a sudden the man just. can't believe be there tell you what. i said i will enter it's even if they win at the moment. even if they will shoot me. at all i'll run on million million indeed i'm not them not to be in the been thought to be taboo don't want to feel that i think i'm a little kid like i mean because you. are. welcome back to worlds apart alan peter thomas secretary of foreign affairs of the

philippines secretary when mentioned the situation in. before and i think it would be fair to say that both the attack on that long destructive siege that followed deeper and fear is among asian countries as well as across the world that isis may seek to expand in other locations after suffering defeats in syria and iraq just the other day we heard the devastating attack in indonesia perpetrated by a whole family including four children who returned from syria do you in the. philippines understand how to deal with you know how good you are first of all our hearts go out and we express our condolences to all the victims of terrorism worldwide even here in russia you are no stranger to. extremism and acts of terrorism. it was a painful experience you know fighting. your own countrymen and fighting

extremists you know it was the first time that there was fighting in a city in an urban setting it's usually outside and sunni they say that you know if there are religious undertones or society or historical differences but here it was just filipino against filipino in the name of a pervert dead. and already you say on the one occasion that there was a real danger at one point of time. forming from being a battle between terrorism and the. war that the danger is there the president is in the best position because he's seen this he was going around the camps already saying watch out keep a keen eye you know it will just take it's like gasoline spread all over and it just takes a spark and he knew at that time that syria and iraq would soon stab ilyse and the diaster and isis would be defeated and where we'll go the couple hundred or

a couple of thousands of southeast asian jihadist fighters who joined where will they go how do you think these people should be dealt with because the eights not only the fighters it's also the families it's also the children again the internation really recent internation example shows that the children could also be used as he said bombers well you know. it should be dealt like a no nonsense father with a firm hand but then open heart you know no one wants to scold or put in jail or stand in the corner his son or his daughter you know but. let these people into your back into your house and you know that they present a potential danger if they are terrorists you know then they are a trip to all nations to all people having said brothers in the govt have to communicate that to us there's need for rehabilitation there's a need to communicate to their families that they have been rescued and not capture

you know but there's so much to be done from intelligence sharing from taking out the fertile ground for recruitment to that kind of mentality so poverty and crime and drugs put together just creates that fertile ground of breeding extremists and this kind of ideology now you mentioned already did that the united states and the philippines have just. joint military exercises to build on the lessons of the moroccan siege involving some eight thousand troops from both sides as well as a small contingent from australia and japan is that a sign that your political relations with the united states to be restraint as you sad over the criticism about the war on drugs. is it a sign that that relationship isn't proving well i don't know the term military to military. relation you know never suffered. friends the detective

said that there is an exercise this would be suspended we suspended all of the exercises in the south china sea and with regards to certain aspects of the eight thousand you mentioned today it was more for disaster prevention so yes we focused on that and he's keeping it not to a what i'm saying is that if people two people the relationship is still strong military to military relationship be strong and you know russia and china have never said to us and never interfered with our relationship with the united states so that they don't have such close to the million tires yes but that's like. makes the relationship strong when you respect the bilateral relationship with your friend with the other friend you know this isn't grade school or high school way and if you fight with a friend you want all your other friends to fight with him or to you know you have to have much your relationships and that includes security and defense arrangements now speaking about maturity and leadership present to terence's personal style his

temperament his sense of humor sometimes compared to that of donald trump do you find that comparison flattering. you know they're both authentic speakers they say or do a tweet what what they want but you know in the philippines he's been compared more with president put in political determination political will a vision of what to do in the country remember the problem with the there is just not only who they are and what they do and direction but also the circumstances at home you know it's very hard to judge a president donald trump he's a good friend to the philippines but he is in a political circumstances where there are you know challenges in all fronts so we have challenges with the u.s. congress challenges with the n.g.o.s who are using human rights as a political weapon challenge just sometimes with the state department but we're trying to build those bridges you know but in the meantime president that there

that this is really care who it is compared to you know he just wants to do a good i understand that it is very easy for the leaders to publicly shrug that kind of that kind of criticism and i think it gets to you and when your country's being maligned over and over again it's it's not pleasant especially for you're dealing with some real life but president that they're the best and care as far as he's concerned he likes president trump they have a good connection they talk frankly but as far as the president that is concerned he very much he's called president putin one of my idols you know so. he says it's none of your business if i like him or not now incidentally president trump also has his own druck epidemics to tackle and correct me if i'm wrong he has not only refrained from criticizing the philippines over the conduct of the war on drugs he actually sat and praised president attended to for the quote unquote deliverable job joe job on the drug problem does the philippines

a sas chomps efforts drugs the american opiate crisis in the same way do you even analyze what the in the demo the president has said that he's very supportive he has empathy he understand what the americans are going through unfortunately the e.u. the us and western media do not understand that there are different challenges when it comes to drugs. now a president is talking about opioids but in the past it was about more of cocaine and cocaine and methamphetamine have different effects in cocaine it's a health issue with the person but that person doesn't go around raping people killing people raping two years old shooting their father met them fit the means have that effect and that's what they were trying to. do you can counter that but saying that even when you have a mentally disabled person committing

a crime you do you put him through an assessment and that's that's what we're doing but this human rights groups wants to legalize prohibit the drugs and it's making it appear there's an even the you end up with two and said there's no evidence that this kind of drugs need to violence so even with the mentally disturbed person you know identified a dangerous dangerous to himself or herself to her family and to remedy so we are just remedying the epidemic of drugs illegal drugs in the philippines respect precedent trump. efforts but we also recognize said that human rights and drug issues have become so politicized you know that we're not discussing it in the level to solve it but to criticize each other and helpful. secretary i notice that the war on drugs is pretty much the only thing that the western reporters ever ask you about and i don't want to focus on you mentioned that but i do want to ask you

one more question on on this issue i came across a poll from last year we suggest that seventy three percent of filipinos worry about becoming victims of extrajudicial killings and that's about as high as the general public support for the crusade again against crime so that leads me to conclude that people support the goal but they are a little bit apprehensive about the math do you share because it depends on the question in the poll so if you ask do you support so for example if you say do you support nuclear power and you get eighty percent and then a fall out happens somewhere and you ask the same question are you concerned that the fallout will happen of course your answer will be you know but look at the later polls nowadays you know people are seeing that we have safer streets people are seeing that yes there are abuses but this was because of fund abuse of police force not because of precedent but there at this directive and with us now by

modern day quip meant more surveillance more c.c.t.v. cameras there more assurances to the public that you know this drug is precisely against those who violate the law and those who are violent you know precedent that there has told president trump and president has listened carefully that we don't shoot people in cold blood but what did the american media report that precedent that they did not discuss human rights so you know they're focused on the form that on the substance they did discuss human rights in a manner of a friendly nations. i think each other sovereignty what would you say to those who claim to have ministration has been a bit blinded by this and to drive campaign and overcommitted police and army resources to counter the drug problem at the expense of other security challenges which. could have the situation we describe discussed previously in the romney well

we care about the filipino we care about the philippines and we know that we would have would open up to a day that we were narco state if we don't do this so we don't really care that much about the people who has the luxury to provide solutions of didn't work or were given the chance to solve the problem and didn't in order to problem so any country with an existential trap is always criticise that they focus too much on that trip but precisely why you call it the next a standstill trip it's a threat to your existence so if we don't pay that if we didn't if the president didn't put that focus will wake up one day that the all the families in the philippines have problems with drugs with violence and a narco state that we've already seen generals we've seen the politicians we've seen hype officials we've seen billions millions thousands of past us in drugs we've saw a cache of cash and drugs in mirali so i think we prove our point that it is

a real danger to us and if other people want to ignore it if other n.g.o.s want to politicize it that's their problem but we'll deal with the real problem well secretary unfortunately we have to leave a day i really appreciate your time very late and to shape this opportunity thank you and i'm courage of yours to keep this conversation going in our social media pages and i hope to see you again same place same time here and will the party.

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you. for the stories that shaped the way karen r.t. canada acknowledges a disturbing chapter in its post-war history when thousands of single mothers were forced to give up their babies we spoke to one of the victims i am holding my daughter i actually had to ask three times and then the last time that i asked i had to yell and then they really went black i started to get i started to pass out and then they took her away from me also to come weapons used by rebels and terrorists in syria have been traced back to nato countries including us and it means hacking in spite of the threats american democracy faces from russia during the upcoming midterm elections according to the u.s.

intelligence community. that the latest developments and look back at what has been happening over the last seven days to you watching the weekly here in our international. now the canadian government has acknowledged a disturbing practice dating back to the postwar period when single mothers were forced to give up their babies the children were then given to married couples in the bid to promote traditional families some women were even tricked into giving up their. children we spoke to one of the victims as soon as they found out i was pregnant they mark my records b.f.a. baby for adoption. i was a fifteen year old girl pregnant i was pregnant from a sexual assault. and. there was no conversation about with me

about how i got pregnant all they cared about was the fact that i was. pregnant and that i had a baby that they could. take. a healthy one cared blue-eyed beautiful baby. you will forget the child go home get married and have other children or if not get a puppy to. that is what i was told get up puppy. it was a very abusive in there. we were isolated from our mike i was isolated from my family is my community my sisters my parents i was completely left alone.

my parents were not canadian citizens they're there from europe and my parents believe that they would get deported if they didn't follow that. what the government wanted at maternity homes mothers were routinely denied their right to see holder feed their babies there are still some mothers who do not know when their day to liberate a boy or girl being told well it's none of your business to hold my. daughter i actually had to ask three times and i meant first i said it quietly and then i said it a little louder and then the last time that i asked i had to yell and i had to yell bring me my baby now. and then the nurse stopped looked at the doctor for permission and i was quite surprised that the nurse would have to ask for permission for me to hold my own daughter since i'm her legal guardian and my

daughter in my arms and. and then they really went. black i started to get i started to pass out and then they took her away from me. i met my daughter she she actually found me so she phoned me. and she said. you don't know who i am and as soon as she said that i knew who she was. we talked on the phone for about six months getting to know each other getting familiar with each other building some trust she needed to feel safe because our children were told that there was something wrong with us they were told an

alternate story that we were drug addicts prostitutes. you know the news three nato soldiers have been killed in the suicide bombing in afghanistan today. so this report from cookbook. a suicide bomber on foot across a nato convoy in north of kabul in the middle of the city of charcoal are. called colors i.e. and detonated his explosive laden vest killing at least three nato service members according to resume. statement three have been killed and three more have been wounded one of the wounded is american and to the rest or

afghan police forces local prevention spokesperson confirmed the attacked in saying that there are civilian casualties but it has been a very vulnerable area nearby bagram air base so this base have been vulnerable because it has diminished your number of the u.s. forces based in there so taliban have been launching missile attacks sometimes mortar attacks and sometimes the plant or improvised explosive device and they usually commit suicide attacks against these forces. but it's been revealed the soldiers killed in that attack were in fact check nationals. from the center for conflicts and peace studies believes that a lasting peace in afghanistan looks increasingly unlikely well i think it is realized by almost everyone all sides of the conflict. you know military solution

in afghanistan is not a solution to this war there has to be a political solution taliban is still the largest in the strongest militant group in afghanistan fighting against the americans fighting against the one government and its other international partners but if we see. if a lot of people argue that ok if there is a species deal with the taliban sure wildman's will completely come to an end i think it's still unrealistic because you know we are our government here is in our system and here in kabul is that even if the taliban stop fighting completely some of its hard core elements or those taliban that are fighting for profit or money well switch to groups like that. now weapons discovered in the former terrorist stronghold of eastern aleppo in syria have been traced back to western manufacturers we're now more correspondent robert fisk identified their origins through their serial numbers and then try to find out how

they ended up in the hands of isn't this militants more now from. this is a weapons factory located in bosnia most likely you have never heard of it but it's here that the weapons were manufactured for one of the bloodiest battles in syria lots of homes were destroyed and lots of civilians were killed in western aleppo by those questionable rebels now most of those rebels are tied to the al qaeda linked al nusra a terrorist group but let's focus on those weapons that they used robert fisk an investigative reporter was able to trace those weapons back to that very factory in bosnia he was able to get a hold of the factories logbook and getting in touch with the former weapons control director the director recognized his signature in the logbook and from there was able to determine who the buyer was it's a warranty for the hundred twenty millimeter shell this is standard it went to

saudi arabia it was pulled to the supply of five hundred moves as i remember the so the shipment whoa the saudis came to a factory to inspect the weapons at the beginning of twenty sixteen the response from saudi officials was pretty much a denial they said that the investigation was vague and undefined however their response seemed pretty big as well so to really be a is a leading voice within the international community in support of a diplomatic solution to the conflict in syria while at the same time working with our neighbors and allies to counter the growth of forces of extremism but it's not just saudi arabia the former weapons director says that nato and the united states pretty much run the show at the weapons making the syllabi production off to the bulls and war zone to the control of the americans. who are always coming whom and they know each and every piece of weaponry that leaves a factory. we also asked nato for

a response but they didn't have any details to share even though the weapons were actually made to the nato standards they did does not own so or transfer arms or ammunition for any further questions we would refer you to national authorities now another trace from the basement of this former terrorist base in aleppo is the markings on the casing of a missile now if you take a look the first number here this represents the type of missile the second number however is the stock number you'll notice that it contains the figure zero one now that's the nato code representing the united states it turns out that this t o w anti-tank missile was manufactured at a facility in the united states by the raytheon systems company this is not the first time this has happened syria is actually littered with weapons that are made to nato standards and some of which have actually been manufactured in the united states the question now is how much do washington and.